Shirt-cuff.



C. McC. SUSSMAN.

SHIRT CUFF. Armenian man un. 2|. |917.

Patented Sept. 4, 1917 h2/1: @Havanna COBELIA MUCUE SUSSMAN, 0F LONG BRANCH, NEW JERSEY` SHIRT-GUFF.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4.-, 1917.

Application filed March 21, 1917. Serial No. 156,405.

To all whom it 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, CoRNELiA 'MOCUE SUssMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Long Branch, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shirt-Cuffs, of which the followingr is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates more particularly to articles used in conjunction with a class of wearing apparel.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide a cuii commonly known as the soft turn-over style used on certain forms of mens shirts, and which is designed so that the wearing quality of the cuff will be greatly increased by employing a flexible member, or strip on the cu so that when folded the strip will serve as a wearing surface to protect the underneath layers of the body of the cuff. The protecting strip is preferably made of the same material as the culf proper for being practically unnoticeable, and the strip is applied to the cuff so that when damaged by wear the strip may be removed. The body of the cufl will thereby be kept in practically perfect condition, and as the folded edges of cuifs of this class usually wear-out before other parts of the garment the requirement for replacing the cuffs will be lar ely overcome as well as preventing the shirt from being prematurely dispensed with.

A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby the edges of the strip are attached to the body of the cuff to allow the strip to be readily removed therefrom.

A practical embodiment of the mvention is re resented in the accompanying drawing ormin a part of this specification in which simi ar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and will then be pointed out in the claim at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a fragmentary view showing an elevation of one form of shirt cuf embodying my invention when folded.

Fi 2 is an inverted plan of the cuif when unfo ded, and

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line III-III of Fig. 2.

The cuff has a body 10 which may be fashioned in the usual, or any preferred form for use on the end of the sleeve, as

l1, of a shirt, and as is incident to garments of this class the cuff is ordinarily made of the same cloth or material as the shirt proper. This cuff is also preferably of the well-known soft turn-over style withone of its lengthwise edges being stitched to the sleeve of the shirt, and the central part of its body 10 is creased to allow the second free end half of the body to be folded in overlapping arrangement on the stitched half of the body.

The wearing surface of shirt cuffs of this type is therefore imposed principally upon the body 10 at its lengthwise crease, and serving to prevent this part of the body from becoming prematurely worn, a removable protectin liexible member, or strip, as 12, is provided. The protecting strip l2 is preferably made of like material as well as being of a similar pattern to the body of the cuff, and this strip may be of a desired width, while being of a length corresponding to the length of the body of the cull'. The protecting strip is disposed on the inner surface of the body of the cuftI so that its central part lengthwise will be superimposed on the part of the body corresponding to the line on which it may be creased when the cuil` is folded and so that the strip will cover parts of the body adjacent to the creasing line. The strip is then removably attached to the body of the cuff by both of the lengthwise edges of the strip being stitched, at 13 and 14, to the body, and this stitching is preferably done according to a common method known as chain-stitching which by pulling the thread of each of the stitched edges of the strip will cause all of the thread tobe ripped to allow the strip to be easily removed from the body 10 of the cuff.

The protecting strip thus applied to the cuf is creased simultaneously with the creas* ing of the body 10 when the free end half of the body is folded over upon the other half of the body.' The protecting strip will then be on the wearing edge of the cuff to revent the body from prematurely becomm worn, and when the strip is frayed or ot erwise dama ed it is removed in the manner above descri ed, in order to preserve the durability of the culf proper of the shirt as Well as overcoming the necessity for its replacement with a new cuif.

In the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of my invention,

but I do not Wish to be understood as limit ing myself thereto, as I am aware that modifcations may be made `therein Without depalftigigyfror 4the principle, or sacrificing any "pf :the advantages of this invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make such dl-langes as fairly fall Within the scope thereof.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure hy Letters i Patent A shirt cuff, comprising a body adapted to rbe folded so that one of its halves overlaps the other half, and a strip of the same material and of the same pattern as the 15 `body arranged .thereon so that when folded the strip will provide a wearing surface, and the strip being chain-stitched to the liodjT so as to be removable therefrom.

This Specification signed and witnessed 20 this 20th day of March A. D. i917.

CORNELIA MGCUE SUSSMAN.

IVitnesses:

GEORGE F. BENTLEY, V. M. RUMPH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve ycentr. each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, ID. C. 

